Geopolitics

Geopolitics () is the study of the effects of Earth's geography on politics and international relations. Geopolitics usually refers to countries and relations between them. According to multiple researchers, the term is currently being used to describe a broad spectrum of concepts, in a general sense used as "a synonym for international political relations", but more specifically "to imply the global structure of such relations"; this usage builds on an "early-twentieth-century term for a pseudoscience of political geography" and other pseudoscientific theories of historical and geographic det

geo-political inter-parliamentary forum for co-operation between the Nordic countries

Geostrategy, a subfield of geopolitics, is a type of foreign policy guided principally by geographical factors as they inform, constrain, or affect political and military planning. As with all strategies, geostrategy is concerned with matching means to ends. Strategy is as intertwined with geography as geography is with nationhood, or as Colin S. Gray and Geoffrey Sloan state it, "[geography is] the mother of strategy."

list of countries viewed as enemies by Russia

thumb|Edward Luttwak was among the first post-Cold War contributors to the idea that the future of geopolitical competition would extend into the economic sphere. Geoeconomics (sometimes geo-economics) commonly refers to analytical frameworks used to assess the strategic spatial properties of national economies or the economic means of statecraft of particular territories in relation to others. Geoeconomics also serves as a strategic discourse and practice in foreign policy, where it is primarily informed by realist and mercantilist traditions. It emphasizes how states can leverage economic po

Nation considered an outcast by the international community

term describing the diminished power of the United States

geopolitical model set forth in the 1970s by the Greek historian Dimitri Kitsikis

country exporting lots of energy

branch of geography

classical Chinese legalist school of thought

planning efforts during WW2

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political considerations of space policy

Geopolitical zone in Nigeria

pan-Asian organization

theory of the role of warfare in state formation in political anthropology

aspect of diplomacy within the petroleum industry

geopolitical theory that intellectuals of statecraft construct ideas about places, which influence and reinforce political behaviors and policy choices and affect how people process notions of places and politics